Agreed. What’s worse is when they confidently proclaim that they had to scale up N times “to handle the load,” but then a brief reading of of their schema and queries reveals that an RPi could probably handle it if they’d designed a better schema, and had a basic understanding of B+trees.
With entity framework code first, Microsoft made it possible for generations of developers to barely touch a database.
A lot of Devs have poor database skills nowadays.
Which suits the cloud sellers who want to push managed platforms